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Since Winter posted her Possibilities fiction (and a damned good read it is too. Go check it out) here at dA, I thought I'd post the accompanying art piece as well.

This was our first collaboration together at KotOR Fan Media, originally done sometime in April '06 (although the story was published only a few days ago). Winter had a set of five stories about five possible romances for fExile in the KotORverse, and was looking for artists to collaborate, and had asked if I would do the Bao-Dur one. Everybody who knows me will know I don't do romance, but this was a lot of fun to do anyway. Cheers Winter, yo.

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I admit to being a little prejudiced when it comes to anime. My grandfather, who was a major influential figure in my early life, hated it, and so I learnt to hate it too. Mind you, I have a healthy respect for those who draw good anime and manga... but I can't and won't draw it myself.

I USED to be okay with anime... until I saw just how much of it there was. Hense, the avatar. Pretty much 80 percent of avatars that I see are some sort of anime. I just think people need to find their own style, as you have. And I can't say I respect people who draw it well, because I don't like any of it, frankly. :/

Well, it came out decently only because it was Bao-Dur I was drawing. I, on the other hand, can't do a decent Disciple to save my life - unlike you, who actually managed to get Mr. Scary Teeth to look naively endearing.

Hey, overgrown schoolboy works with Atton up to... well, before he defected to the Sith. When I draw him, I just have a tendency to portray him as either Three Stooges-stupid (you notice all those Atton/Mical/Bao-Dur routines, yeah?) or viciously malevolent. [sheepish shrug]

LOL nah. It wouldn't be fair to submit an artwork I did as a collaboration with a writer as a contest entry, would it? I just thought that I'd send it to the KotOR gallery, given that it's fanart and all.

...of course, I can't think of very many situations in which you'd want to, seeing as how you prefer things that are morbid or humourous (or morbidly humourous), but at least we've discovered you can, should the need ever arise. Great job on this!

Yay! I'm glad you put it up here! (Maybe you should toss it in the contest, too.) This is my favorite piece of fanart, ever! I always like the way you draw Bao. Thanks for working with me, you're the best!

Thanks! Yeah, I know his jaw's a bit pointy there - I based him on the game model (the stock picture's in one of them reference galleries) and not on the original concept art (in which he had a rounder, more 'human' face). Ah well...